Voices Acceptance and Action Scale

Shawyer, Frances; Ratcliff, Kirk; Mackinnon, Andrew; Farhall, John; Hayes, Steven C.; Copolov, David L.

doi:10.1037/t64086-000

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“…Similarly, although patients with psychotic diagnoses are often advised to ignore their voices (Coffey & Hewitt, 2008;Haddock & Slade, 1996: Ritsher et al, 2004, available evidence suggests that this strategy, at least in some cases, could actually perpetuate voice activity (Mawson, Cohen, & Berry, 2010;A. P. Morrison & Baker, 2000: Romme et al, 2009: Shawyer et al, 2007: VeigaMartfnez, Pérez-Álvarez, & García-Montes, 2008. The finding that resistance toward voices is significantly associated with anxious and depressive symptomatology (Chadwick, Lees, & Birchwood, 2000) is consistent with the argument that VH lies on a continuum with intrusive cognitions whereby the act of suppressing and distancing against unacceptable thoughts may paradoxically heighten the likelihood of occurrence (Badcock, Waters, & Maybery, 2007: Clark, 2005; García-Montes, Pérez-Álvarez, & Fidalgo, 2004: A. P. Morrison & Baker, 2000: Steil & Ehlers, 2000Várese et al, 2011).…”

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“…Altematively, accepting and acknowledging the presence of even menacing and punitive voices may assist individuals to defiect attention and behavioral resources from avoiding and containing VH toward the more important goal of living a fulfilling life (Shawyer et al, 2007;Valmaggia & Morris, 2010). As coping in VH is often guided (and constrained) by attitudes toward the voices, constant avoidance could also deny individuals the opportunity to disconfirm a voice's perceived power and influence (Birchwood & Chadwick, 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Dissociation, trauma, and the role of lived experience: Toward a new conceptualization of voice hearing.

Longden¹,

Madill

Waterman

2012

Psychological Bulletin

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Voice hearing (VH) is often regarded as pathognomic for schizophrenia. The purpose of this article is to review and integrate historical, clinical, epidemiological, and phenomenological evidence in order to suggest that VH may be more appropriately understood as a dissociative rather than a psychotic phenomenon. First, we discuss the lifetime prevalence of VH in the general population, which is estimated to range between 1% and 16% for adult nonclinical populations and 2% and 41% in healthy adolescent samples. Second, we demonstrate how the ubiquity of VH phenomenology, including variables like voice location, content, and frequency, limits its diagnostic and prognostic utility for differentiating psychotic from trauma-spectrum and nonclinical populations. Finally, we report on the empirical associations between VH, measures of dissociation, and trauma particularly (though not exclusively) childhood sexual abuse. There are 2 main conclusions from this review. First, we argue that available evidence suggests that VH experiences, including those in the context of psychotic disorders, can be most appropriately understood as dissociated or disowned components of the self (or self-other relationships) that result from trauma, loss, or other interpersonal stressors. Second, we provide a rationale for clinicians to use psychotherapeutic methods for integrating life events as precipitating and/or maintaining factors for distressing voices. Potential mechanisms for the relationship between trauma, dissociation, VH, and clinical diagnosis are described, including the relevance of literature from the field of attachment in providing a diathesis for dissociation. Suggestions for future research are also discussed.

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Section: Therapeutic Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Therapeutic Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dissociation, trauma, and the role of lived experience: Toward a new conceptualization of voice hearing.

Longden¹,

Madill

Waterman

2012

Psychological Bulletin

193

151

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“…, smoking (Gifford, Kohlenberg, Hayes, Antonuccio, Piasecki, RasmussenHall, & Palm, 2004), diabetes management (Gregg, Callaghan, Hayes, & Glenn-Lawson, 2007), tinnitus (Westin, Andersson, & Hayes, 2008), weight (Lillis & Hayes, 2008), coping with epilepsy (Lundgren, Dahl, & Hayes, 2008), and coping with psychotic symptoms (Shawyer, Ratcliff, Mackinnon, Farhall, Hayes, & Copolov, 2007), among several others. So far, all of these specific versions work well in predicting outcomes within their respective areas and have been particularly effective as mediators of ACT interventions that target these specific problems (e.g., Gifford et al, 2004;Gregg et al, 2007;Lundgren et al, 2008;Lillis & Hayes, 2008).…”

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